The Ukrainian town of Pripyat has been left to decay for nearly four decades after it was abandoned overnight after the 1986 ...

The explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine on April 26, 1986 remains the worst nuclear disaster in human history. It left a 30-kilometer ...

While dogs are often thought to be our best friends, and we’ve been living alongside them for thousands of years, we’re still finding out new things about them all the time. Some of these are on a ...

“Most people think of the Chernobyl nuclear accident as a radiological disaster in an abandoned corner of Ukraine ... shows a dog in the ghost town of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 was ... The abandoned city of Pripyat in modern day Ukraine serves as a haunting monument which regularly features as a setting in video games.

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations.

The hundreds of dogs that live in Chernobyl's exclusion zone have caught the attention of researchers interested in the ...

The Westport Chernobyl Outreach Group intends to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster later this month ...

Dogs living near the Chernobyl nuclear plant aren’t radioactive mutants—but their genetic differences reveal a surprising story.

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl ... across Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia occurred in the decades since the meltdown, and a roughly 1,000-square-mile exclusion zone still exists around the facility ...